The second annual Taste of Chamblee “A Festival for the Senses” will have over 30 restaurants presenting the best and most divers food in the Southeast. Where else can you pay a few dollars ($1 – $4) to sample Indian, Malaysian, Mexican, Chinese Dim Sum, BBQ, Cajun, and Italian?
There is something for everyone so while you are enjoying the food and music shop the Art Walk featuring over 40 regional artists with unique hand made arts and crafts.
This was somebody’s online dating headline referencing the old asop’s fable about the ant who worked all summer and stored food and the grasshopper who laughed and played and was merry until the winter came along.
I was thinking about it as I read their online profile an as a frugal dater I have to admit that I’m an ant.
This made me think back on some of the ladies I’ve been out with recently and the conversations I’ve had over a few drinks. Some of them tell me about their latest vacations and they remember about half (because the rum took away the other half). And the less that they remember the more better the vacation.
I have a favorite 4 letter word, and it’s the F word, but probably not the F word that you’re thinking of right off the bat. The word is FREE. (Although running a close second is the word DEAL, but that’s not anywhere as sexy as the word FREE).
On the other side of that coin however is the label of cheap (as in cheapskate). So the real balancing act is in
With the winds of uncertainty still blowing around everyone is trying to save at least a little more then they were in the past.
Friday night is coming up again and what do you do? How about a free concert?
Hot Summer Nights Free concert featuring Donnie Murray and also featuring Susan Sherlock, hammered dulcimer. Art exhibit by featured artist Jon Rouche of Rock Hill, SC. It’s indoors – and you’ll need to bring a chair!
When:Thu 8/27 (7PM)
Where: Avant Garde Center for the Arts
621 Dearborn Street Great Falls, SC Map
Cost: FREE!
Popularity: unranked [?]
Frugaldaters of Indy, there’s not a whole lot of places better to take a first date then a comedy club and show her your funny bone.
IndyProv is holding Caffeinated Improv Comedy night at The Bean Cup on S. St. Peter Street. There will be live performers showing off there skills in improvisational comedy at this FREE show.
Here’s the Details:
WHEN: Saturday, August 22nd
TIME: 8:00pm
WHERE: The Bean Cup 8908 S. St. Peter Street Indianapolis, Marion County 317-639-4300
COST: FREE
official link HERE
Popularity: unranked [?]
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Admission to Brew Ha Ha is free, so guests can enjoy all the great comedy at no cost! Beer stands are located throughout the event site and will feature many different varieties. These beers can be bought by the sample, or by the glass.
FrugalDaters, we’re bringing you this one at the prompting of a suggestion from one your fellow Frugal Daters.Pottery Barn obviously is searching for new ways to drum up foot traffic, so they’re now offering a series of home decorating classes. And you never know you might just learn something (I actually picked up a bunch of free tips before I re-decorated my house about a year ago by waching a few months of design shows)
Here’s the details:
Class Name: Creating the Perfect Home Office
Date: Sunday August 23rd
Locations: Various Pottery Barn Stores
Are you looking for something different to take your date to? Although this isn’t one of our FREE date ideas it does come it under $20 and that still qualifies in our book as frugal.
Take a Retro spin back to your childhood days and roll on down to Cascade Roller Rink – who on Wednesdays has Adult night (that means no dodging little ankle biters holding on to the rails and getting dirty looks from overprotective parents)
WHEN: Wensdays 8-Midnight
WHERE: Cascade Roller Rink
COST: $6 admission per adult (18+) with $2 skate rental fee
Official Link HERE
FrugalDaters, time for another free concert – this one is at Pentegon Row as part of their 7th Annual Summer Rock at the Row Summer Concert Series.
Coming up on the 20th of August is Taylor Carson – here’s what OnTap Magazine had to say about him:
Mass Ave Theatre and IndyFringe Festival
There will be 53 performance groups from Indiana, U.S.A. and the world. As well as more than 270 live theater performances in 10 days, plus fine arts, film festival, street performers, and lots more.
WHEN: August 21-30, 2009
WHERE: Six venues in the Massachusetts Avenue Cultural District.
COST: Buy a $3 festival badge onsite good for all 10 days, then pay $10 cash per person per show at the door, 30 minutes before any show ($5 under age 12).
Official Link Here
Popularity: unranked [?]
Loading ...Being single and playing the dating game is tough enough, but going bankrupt shouldn\'t be a part of it while you\'re looking for Miss or Mr. Right. This is why we created the frugal dater, finding you free and cheap dating ideas that will help you through these tough times with out making you look like a tightwad. No matter if you found your date online, at a dating site, through a networking group, at a bar or via chance encounter - you can have a great time on any budget.